Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
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Published:2016
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Volume:2016
Page:1-21
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ISSN:1687-7357
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Container-title:Advances in High Energy Physics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Advances in High Energy Physics
Author:
Andringa S.1, Arushanova E.2, Asahi S.3, Askins M.4, Auty D. J.5, Back A. R.26, Barnard Z.7, Barros N.18, Beier E. W.8, Bialek A.5, Biller S. D.9, Blucher E.10, Bonventre R.8, Braid D.7, Caden E.7, Callaghan E.8, Caravaca J.1112, Carvalho J.13, Cavalli L.9, Chauhan D.137, Chen M.3, Chkvorets O.7, Clark K.369, Cleveland B.714, Coulter I. T.89, Cressy D.7, Dai X.3, Darrach C.7, Davis-Purcell B.15, Deen R.89, Depatie M. M.7, Descamps F.1112, Di Lodovico F.2, Duhaime N.7, Duncan F.714, Dunger J.9, Falk E.6, Fatemighomi N.3, Ford R.714, Gorel P.5, Grant C.4, Grullon S.8, Guillian E.3, Hallin A. L.5, Hallman D.7, Hans S.16, Hartnell J.6, Harvey P.3, Hedayatipour M.5, Heintzelman W. J.8, Helmer R. L.15, Hreljac B.7, Hu J.5, Iida T.3, Jackson C. M.1112, Jelley N. A.9, Jillings C.714, Jones C.9, Jones P. G.29, Kamdin K.1112, Kaptanoglu T.8, Kaspar J.17, Keener P.8, Khaghani P.7, Kippenbrock L.17, Klein J. R.8, Knapik R.818, Kofron J. N.17, Kormos L. L.19, Korte S.7, Kraus C.7, Krauss C. B.5, Labe K.10, Lam I.3, Lan C.3, Land B. J.1112, Langrock S.2, LaTorre A.10, Lawson I.714, Lefeuvre G. M.6, Leming E. J.6, Lidgard J.9, Liu X.3, Liu Y.3, Lozza V.20, Maguire S.16, Maio A.121, Majumdar K.9, Manecki S.3, Maneira J.121, Marzec E.8, Mastbaum A.8, McCauley N.22, McDonald A. B.3, McMillan J. E.23, Mekarski P.5, Miller C.3, Mohan Y.8, Mony E.3, Mottram M. J.26, Novikov V.3, O’Keeffe H. M.319, O’Sullivan E.3, Orebi Gann G. D.81112, Parnell M. J.19, Peeters S. J. M.6, Pershing T.4, Petriw Z.5, Prior G.1, Prouty J. C.1112, Quirk S.3, Reichold A.9, Robertson A.22, Rose J.22, Rosero R.16, Rost P. M.7, Rumleskie J.7, Schumaker M. A.7, Schwendener M. H.7, Scislowski D.17, Secrest J.24, Seddighin M.3, Segui L.9, Seibert S.8, Shantz T.7, Shokair T. M.8, Sibley L.5, Sinclair J. R.6, Singh K.5, Skensved P.3, Sörensen A.20, Sonley T.3, Stainforth R.22, Strait M.10, Stringer M. I.6, Svoboda R.4, Tatar J.17, Tian L.3, Tolich N.17, Tseng J.9, Tseung H. W. C.17, Van Berg R.8, Vázquez-Jáuregui E.1425, Virtue C.7, von Krosigk B.20, Walker J. M. G.22, Walker M.3, Wasalski O.15, Waterfield J.6, White R. F.6, Wilson J. R.2, Winchester T. J.17, Wright A.3, Yeh M.16, Zhao T.3, Zuber K.20
Affiliation:
1. Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP), Avenida Elias Garcia 14, 1°, 1000-149 Lisboa, Portugal 2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK 3. Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6 4. University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA 5. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, 4-181 CCIS, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E1 6. Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Pevensey II, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK 7. Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 2C6 8. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, USA 9. University of Oxford, The Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK 10. The Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 11. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 12. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nuclear Science Division, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720-8153, USA 13. Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas and Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal 14. SNOLAB, Creighton Mine No. 9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3Y 1N2 15. TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2A3 16. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Building 555, P.O. Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973-500, USA 17. Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 18. Norwich University, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield, VT 05663, USA 19. Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK 20. Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 19, 01069 Dresden, Germany 21. Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Edifício C8, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal 22. Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK 23. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK 24. Department of Chemistry & Physics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USA 25. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, DF, Mexico
Abstract
SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12 m diameter acrylic vessel which will be filled with about 780 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid scintillator. Designed as a multipurpose neutrino experiment, the primary goal of SNO+ is a search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) of130Te. In Phase I, the detector will be loaded with 0.3% natural tellurium, corresponding to nearly 800 kg of130Te, with an expected effective Majorana neutrino mass sensitivity in the region of 55–133 meV, just above the inverted mass hierarchy. Recently, the possibility of deploying up to ten times more natural tellurium has been investigated, which would enable SNO+ to achieve sensitivity deep into the parameter space for the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy in the future. Additionally, SNO+ aims to measure reactor antineutrino oscillations, low energy solar neutrinos, and geoneutrinos, to be sensitive to supernova neutrinos, and to search for exotic physics. A first phase with the detector filled with water will begin soon, with the scintillator phase expected to start after a few months of water data taking. The0νββPhase I is foreseen for 2017.
Funder
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Publisher
Hindawi Limited
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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